87 Resources on Worship
Picto:Blog - April 4, 2009
by Pastor Scott Thomas
Photo of old organ by Scott Thomas
I love driving worship leaders crazy. Therefore I have inundated them with 87 resources for worship. They will hardly know where to start. That's for all the times they asked me to sing, "Shout to the Lord" or "I Can Sing of Your Love Forever" or any song that has the word "river" in the title! There, we're even. Now enjoy.
Section One: Acts 29 Resources (audio and articles)
Section Two: Institute for Christian Worship audio files (Southern Seminary)
Section Three: John Piper seminar on Worship
Section One: Acts 29 Worship Resources
Audio:
Harold Best: Is "Worship" the Only Word for Worship?
Harold Best: Jesus the Sole Mediator of Worship and the ...
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Picto:Blog April 2, 2009
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Introducing the members of the Pastor's Training Program at Mars Hill
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I attended my first Acts 29 Boot Camp in May of 2003. Forty-three people met in the foyer of the current Ballard building when Mars Hill was running a very respectable 1,500 people. At that time, they had about 400 matching chairs in the front section of the auditorium and another mosaic array of about 200 chairs of the recycled quality: lawn chairs, old kitchen chairs, rusted folding chairs and garage sale rejects. The ...
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